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...Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 31 Beta Phi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi, Gamma* Phi Beta, Delta, Delta, Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sororicide | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Squab & Turkey. At noon he was back at the University Club, this time in the lounge on the second floor, to be greeted by members of Beta Theta Pi, his college fraternity, and members of the Los Angeles Big Ten Club. They called for a speech. He climbed onto a settee and left no doubt that he was ad dressing them as a candidate for the Presidency. Then he spent 20 minutes shaking hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: THE INVASION OF CALIFORNIA | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

University of California at Los Angeles. Over 90% of U.C.L.A.'s fraternity men have signed up for active service. When one fraternity (Theta Chi) entertained an Army Air Corps recruiting officer, he broke up the "house" by taking 17 brothers away with him. The university's corps of air cadets are conspicuous for the gas masks slung over their shoulders. Students scramble for commissions in R.O.T.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Days of School | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements were: a slick blond pompadour and more money than brains. Willkie had neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Issue | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...began preparing for the hearings late in 1938 when SEC Chairman Bill Douglas summoned his Columbia University schoolmate (and brother in Beta Theta Pi) Ernest J. Howe, started him on a preliminary survey of U. S. life insurance. Bald Ernest Howe had had some eight years' investment-buying experience in Wall Street (with Blyth & Co., Inc. and Lehman Bros.), knew as well as any other wide-awake economist what tremendous capital reservoirs the insurance companies have become as holders of mortgages on the U. S., its States and municipalities and on U. S. farms and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Big 26 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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